The Willy Nordwind Collection is a real life testimony to humanity amidst hatred and destruction. Willy Nordwind and the Boston Committee for Refugees were able to save many German Jews from the Nazi regime by bringing them to the United States. The collection documents Willy Nordwinds attempts to bring as many German Jews as possible out of Germany before World War II. Included here is correspondence with those who just came or those whom Willy Nordwind was still trying to bring over. In many cases correspondence is accompanied by additional materials such as immigration, financial, and professional documents, photographs, CVs. In addition to correspondence with émigrés there is also Willy Nordwinds correspondence with other individuals and companies trying to find jobs for the newly arrived

Also included in the collection is a very small portion of personal materials of Willy and Eleanor Nordwind, née Cornez, such as correspondence, documents, and photographs

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:

Apel, Hans; Back, Arthur; Baerdach, Walter; Beier, H.; Bernhard, Heinz; Bertheim, Terry; Boraks, Ludwig; Borg, Kurt; Brandt, Gertrud; Cohn, Franz; Deutsch, Alice; Diamont, Friedel; Elsberg, Albert; Farfel, Victor; Freund, Moritz; Friedlaender, Julius; Friedland, Hilda; Friedmann, Rudolf; Grafenberg, Kurt; Greenbaum, Isaac; Grunbaum, Kurt; Halberstaedter, Klaus; Himmelweit, Hans; Hoff, Franz; Jacoby, Fritz; Kahn, Theo Max; Kellermann, Heinz; Kollek, Theodore; Landau, Oskar; Laszky, Wolfgang; Lewin, Egmont; Lewkowitz; Loewenstein, Lotte; Lowy, Willy; Mandler, Fritz; Mankiewicz, Vera; Manklein; Mauer, Victor; Mayer, Liselotte; Mayerfeld, Walter; Miller, Irving; Morgenstern, Wilhelm; Nathan, Hans; Neumann, Hans; Nordwind, Thekla Stein; Nordwind, Willy; Nussbaum, Julius; Oppenheimer, Dorothe; Raskin, Mitja; Richard, Helen; Rosenthal, Erich; Roth, Herbert; Russakoff, I.S.; Schmal, Max; Schutz, Friedrich; Schwalb, Robert; Sonneborn, Ferdinand; Spiegel family; Stern, Herbert; Strauss, David; Sussman, Julius; Ulrich, Hertha; Weigert family; Weil, Ilse; Weinberger, Erich; Weiss, Hilda; Wertheimer, Sigbert; White, Hilda; Wohlgemuth family; Wolf, Paul; Wollner, Paul; Zimbler, Fritz; Zwirn, Otto

Willy Nordwind was born in Germany in 1901. His family moved to the United States and settled in the Boston area. In the late 1930s Willy was very active in trying to bring German Jews to the United States. He was one of the founders of the Boston Committee for Refugees. Willy Nordwind died in 1964

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